This certificate will qualify the practitioner to a very high standard of home pet care in all its variables and with a core emphasis on dog walking in public and private places. It equips the qualified person in the essential tenets of operating a professional business.

It adds a critical canine behaviour and psychology element within the modules to be studied so the learner can identify dogs to be avoided and dogs which are safe. Care for people's pets in their home or in public parks is a big responsibility which these module provide for, including a section on basic dog law.